Download j2sdk-1.4.2 from Sun Download center http://developers.sun.com/downloads/ Here I have used j2sdk-1_4_2_18-linux-i586-rpm.bin which will install j2sdk using RPMS and set the Path of JAVA_HOME automatically

Test Tomcat installation
open a browser and browse website http://xx.xx.xx.xx:8080 where xx.xx.xx.xx will be your Server IP and If you get following output than Tomcat has been installed properly on the Server.

Creating Script to start, stop and restart Tomcat

The above installation step will not create tomcat service so that user can restart tomcat using command service tomcat restart. Create a new file in /etc/init.d as tomcat and copy following contenents into it.

2 Comments to “Installation of Tomcat 6”

Many thanks for the script!. BUT Note that in the script some of the quotes, double-quotes and the dashes before (at least) the second ‘width’ command have been changed into non-ASCII characters, and have to be fixed before the script will work.